This is an interesting issue, while it doesn't directly concern me right now,
it's something I'd like to understand better. For those of us who rely on
packages to populate our harddrives, the process of recompiling beyond a
one-shot build is less than trivial. A little more detail in the solution
part of this discussion would really be valuable, as I suspect this is a
thread which may be Googled for by future newbies. A few pointers and
signposts on where to start patching, recompiling and installing binaries
might answer possible FAQs. I'm asking here partly because some of Malcolm's
explanations on other topics have really clued me in, for which thanks is
due :-) ... if you have the spare time / braincell etc...
cheers
tim hall
Last Thursday 08 July 2004 07:46, Mike Rawes was like:
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:59:22 -0700
>> Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan at starband.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 13:59, Mike Rawes wrote:
> > > On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:15:59 -0700
> > >
> > > Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan at starband.net> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 09:28, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> > > > > I have used Freeverb a lot in previous implementations of the
> > > > > CMT LADSPA package and the last version of Ardour I was using
> > > > > was beta 11.1 I think.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am using Arodur beta 17.1 now and all other LADSAP plugs,
> > > > > including those in the CMT package, seem to be working fine but
> > > > > the response of Freeverb has changed...the reverb time is now
> > > > > very short and won't seem to adjust beyond a shortish plate type
> > > > > reverb. Before you could get super monsterous reverb tails if
> > > > > wanted.
> > > > >
> > > > > Has anything changed in the Freeverb module? Is there something
> > > > > new in the Ardour package that might be causing this? I notice
> > > > > some new panning thingys and such.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ANY help would be much appreciated. I tried every other reverb
> > > > > out there...Tom's (TAP-Plugs) comes close but Freeverb is the
> > > > > smoothest most realistic I have heard for my needs.
> > > >
> > > > Just tried this in AMS 1.8.3...Freeverb is not working in AMS
> > > > either so I wan't to exclude Ardour as being any part of the
> > > > problem here.
> > > >
> > > > I tried TAP reverb in AMS and it works fine.
> > > >
> > > > So what might have change in the CMT version of Freeverb? I
> > > > origianlly had CMT 1.15-2mdk.rpm installed. These are Mandrake
> > > > rpm's...I also downloaded CMT 1.15-3.mdk.rpm and installed and it
> > > > is the same thing. Any one know anything about the specifics of
> > > > the CMT package of LADSPA plugs that may be relevant?
> > >
> > > The float denormal macro defined in Freeverb/Components/denormals.h
> > > doesn't come out too well with recent gcc - I replaced it with this
> > > (which turned up on this list during a discussion about denormal
> > > handling):
> > >
> > > static inline float
> > > undenormalise(volatile float s)
> > > {
> > > s += 9.8607615E-32f;
> > > return s - 9.8607615E-32f;
> > > }
> > >
> > > It should be fine after that.
> >
> > Great! So ....Where the heck do I find this on my Mandrake 10.0
> > system? Is it something I can edit in a file on my system with the
> > present CMT LADSPA install or is it more complex than that?
>> Sorry - I wasn't thinking. To apply this fix means you need the source.
> (And the discussion was not on _this_ list at all - it was on LAD!)
>> You can try this binary, which is just the plugins compiled on my system
> (AthlonXP 2000+, so it should be OK on yours:)
>>http://waxfrenzy.org/cmt.so.txt>> [Misconfigured webserver, so I had to add a .txt]
>> As root, do
> cp cmt.so.txt /usr/lib/ladspa/cmt.so
>> [/usr/lib/ladspa is the standard place for plugins - you might want to
> confirm with locate cmt.so first]
>> As Malcolm said, the issue is controversial - the maintainers of the RPM
> package should probably apply the fix for now...
>> -
> Myk